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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA 



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jVIontgomery^ City of Rcmarhable Resources 



Text bv WILLIAM WIRT MILLS 



WITH vast coal and iron fields immediately to the north, with 
great forests of yellow pine just to the south, Montgomery 
has yet another natural advantage in being situated in the 
famous Black Belt, a strip fifty miles wide, with 
a rich, dark soil, the most fertile in the world. 

With its seven railroads and its waterways, 
Montgomery can assemble the raw materials for 
manufactures so cheaply that the city can produce 
many lines of merchandise more economically 
than any other "rnanufacturing "centre, and the 
wonderful productiveness of the soil results in 
Montgomery supplying to the North immense 
quantities of grain, fruit and vegetables. 

Besides, it is one of the chief cotton marts of 
the world, with an annual business of about 200,- 
000 bales, the city's trade in cotton and cotton seed 
exceeding $ 1 1 ,000,000 a year, nearly a quarter ol 
this output being from plantations so close to the 
city that the cotton is brought in by wagons. 

Low freight rates and unexcelled transportation 
facilities are supplemented by another advantage: 
the harnessing of the Tallassee River affording 
Montgomery cheaper light and power than any 
other city enjoys, giving the small manufacturer 
an opportunity to produce merchandise quite as 
cheaply as larger concerns. 

These factors have combined to give Mont- 
gomery an annual commerce of more than #40,- 
000,000, its vvholesale grocery business alone hav- 
ing a value of $1 1,500,0005 provisions, #3,500- 
000; dry goods, $4, 500,000; boots and shoes, $1,180,000; hard- 
ware and machinery, $4,485,000; vehicles, $1,300,000. 

There are 1,393 comm.ercial and manufacturing establishments 
in the city, employing 12,500 hands, the wages aggregating 




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^$9,000,000 a year, with prospects of many more itv"the future 

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The city is the trade centre of a population of over 1,000,000, 

but its products, particularly its cotton, groceries and provisions, 

go far beyond this region into the great markets of the North. 

Montgomery is peculiarly a city of opportunity, 

where the man of little capital has a fair chance 

to start a business in a small way and develop it 

•steadily and profitably. 

Montgomery County last year produced 54,- 
000 bales of cotton of a value of jfz, 700,000; 
$864,000 worth of cotton seed; 850,000 bushels 
cf corn, 615,000 bushels of sweet potatoes, 
156,000 bushels of white potatoes, 21,746 tons 
of hay, 12,350 bushels of peanuts, 162,132 
head of poultry, 212,226 dozen eggs, over 4,000 
quarts of milk aday, the total valueof the county's 
farm products being $7,306,645. 

In one establishment 10,000 pounds of coffee (. 
are roasted daily; in another lo,oco pounds of 
Stick candy are made each working day; one cane 
syrup company sends its products into eighteen 
States; four fertilizer manufactories produce 125,- 
000 tons, worth $2,500,000. 

The city is successfully engaged in 163 lines of 
manufactures, yet some of its natural resources in 
the way of raw materials have hardly been touched. 
Close to the city are vast deposits from which high- 
grade ^.c.enrents can be manufactured profitably. 
Some of; t^e finest plastic clays in the country 
are f^iahd in the neighborhood. Besides the 
great forests of yellow pine, there are enormous 
quantities of the finest hard woods within easy reach of the city. 
Big as are Montgomery's industrial, agricultural and commercial 
statistics, they are but indications of far greater business that can be 
done when its opportunities are more fully developed, when more 
capital is employed in the development, and working forces multiplied. 



E MONUMENT, 
V women of Alabama 



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CAPITOL OF ALABAMA, i 8th state in Union, 2,000,000 population, 52,250 sq. mi. State government moved from Tuscaloosa to Mont- 
gomery Jan. 22, 1 846 ; first capitol burned I 849 ; present structure erected 185 i and since enlarged ; first capitol of the Confederacy, which or- 
ganized its government here Feb. 4, 1861, moved to Richmond, Va. , following year. Heart of cotton-raising section of Land ot Dixie. 




COURT HOUSE, $250,000 marble structure; seat of government of Montgomery County; 95,000 population ; taxable values, $29,058,000, 
an increase of 45% in ten years ; farm products $8,000,000, including $2,700,000 in cotton and $964,000 in cotton seed ; 650 miles of county 
roads, 60% improved at cost of $2,000,000 ; 4,019 bridges and culverts; average rainfall 4.39 in. a month ; average height above sea, 300 ft. 




COURT SQUARE, looking up Dexter Ave to the Capitol ; centre of Montgomery ; city founded i8 17 by Andrew Dexter of Rhode Island^ 
and named New Philadelphia; consolidated Dec. 3, 1819, with East Alabama Town, and named after Gen. Richard Montgomery, hero ot 
the Revolution, who fell at Quebec Dec. 31, i 775. The city had steam navigation as early as Oct.'22, 1821, and a 12-mile railroad in 1840. 








FIRST NATIONAL BANK, br-c.t in city; capital and surplus, BhLL BUILDING, erected 1908 at a cost of #451,000; 308 
$1,275,000; deposits, |i2, 100,000. Montgomery has seven banks with offices, four large stores and roof garden ; 871 windows; 3,000 
$5,500,000 deposits, #1 1,000,000 resources. Vandiver building at left, electric lights; finished in Alabama marble. Owned by N. J. Bell. 




ALABAMA RI\ ER at Montgomery, head of steamboat navigation, 410 miles bv water to Gulf of Mexico ; the Alabama has a deep 
broad channel, good How of water eleven months in year, reaching, with its navigable tributary, the Coosa River, rich mineral, timber and 
coal belts, insuring raw. materials and fuel at low freight rates; river steamers connect at Mobile with coastwise and trans-Atlantic lines. 



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UNION STATION, the huh from which seven railroads radiate, Seaboard Air Line, Central of Georgia, Atlantic Coast Line, Louisville & 
Nashville, Mobile & Ohio, Western of Alabama and Union Springs & Northern, with 22,853 m'les of tracks in 14 states; 45 passenger 
trains a day; 180 miles from Mobile, 321 from New Orleans, 608 from St. Louis, 747 from Chicago, 1050 miles from New York. 




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Imperial Hoici. .\..iii.i;ii.i R ; . ^ i . Gay TL^iguc Hotel. WliDlcaU- District. Manufactories, 

VIEW OF MONTGOMERY from the Alabama River to the State Capitol, showing Court Square, the centre of the city, from which the main thorot 
being drawn from driven wells ranging in depth from 250 to 710 feet, with a flow of 5,000,000 gallons a day, distributed through 85 miles of mains; cityl 
dollars: remarkably low death rate, 12.47 P^"" thousand; forty miles of electric street rai.ways, witli complete transfer system; fifteen country roads 





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;e Hotel. First National Bank. City Hali. Montgomery Fair. Retail District. Dexter Avenue. Capitoi. 

; 25 miles of paved Streets; 75 miles unpaved ; 82 miles of sewers ; ^1,500,000 municipal water plant that earned a profit of $118,000 last year, the water 
r its tine weather, only one day in three cloudy, average temperature 64.8 degrees ; over 500 new buildings erected last year at a cost of more than a million 
ity, traversing richest agricultural district in world; city tax rate .01125; ^'^Yj county and state, .02325 ; Jli20,ooo,ooo business a year in Montgomery. 




WOMAN S COLLEGE OV ALABAMA, to which the citiz.ens of Montgomery gave a fine tract of lifty-seven acres of land beautifully 
situated, besides a large fund for the buildings. This is the ninth institution of higher learning for women established in Alabama, the 
Judson Female Institute, founded 1X39, with tine buildings, being one of the first schools of collegiate scope for women in the United States. 




CIA'TRAL HIGH SCHOOL. Fifteen schools worth $500,000. CARNEGIE LIBRARY, $100,000 structure; 50,000 volumes. 
SIDNEY LANIER HIGH SCHOOL, $120,000 building completed 1910, manual training department and laboratories ; auditorium seating 
800; offices of Board of Education ; city has 120 teachers, 4,800 pupils, an increase of 100^ in 10 years; 13 private schools, academies and colleges. 




COUNTRY CLU''- OF MONTGOMERY, picturesque home of exclusive social organization and scene of cotillions and other enter- 
tainments that are features of the life of the city; quaint and elegantly appointed building surrounded by beautiful grounds with tennis courts, 
beautiful golf links and many other facilities for beneficial outdoor exercise and amusement, fine old shade trees and well-kept lawns 






PICKETT SPRINGS PARK, just outside city limits ; maintained OAK PARK, hundred acres of beautiful natural forest, kept 
by street railway company; pleasure ground with varied amusements. in excellent condition under the supervision of the Park Commission. 
VAN DIVER PARK, one of the best race courses in the South ; scene of the Alabama State Fair and the Montgomery County Fair. 




RIVER SCENES, (i) Tallapoosa which joins the Coosa above Montgomery, forming (2) the Alabama vvhicli flows 320 miles into the Mobile. 
TALLASSEE FALLS, 30 miles above Montgomery, and power house of the Montgomery Light & Water Power Company, where 8,000 
horse power is developed for lighting and manufacturing purposes in the city, giving Montgomery the lowest rates in the South for light and power. 




CHURCHES (i) Court Street Methodist Episcopal Cnurch. (2) New First Baptist Church, ^100,000 Georgia marble structure. 

St. John's Episcopal Church. Montgomery's thirty-five churches are well supported and have handsome houses ot worship. The Young 

Men's Christian Association has erected a ^50,000 building, and the Young Women's Christian Association has also acquired a fine home. 





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ACADEMY OF ST. MARY GF LORETTO, cue of the oldest and most iin,.>ii;,.ir, l<.,.ni.in Catliolic schools tor girls in tlie South. 
ST. MARGARET'S HOSPITAL, maintained by the Sisters of Charitv. Montgomery also has an Emergency Hospital, the Laura Hill Hos- 
pital, Hale Infirmary for Negroes, County Hospital, Salvation Army Emergency Home, Highland Park Sanitarium and Working Woman's Home. 



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RESIDENCES, (i) McKinney residt-nce, Monroe Street. (z) J. W. Black, South Court Street. (3) C. A. Thigpen, Perry 
Street. (4) Samuel Sable, South Perrv Street. Montgomery has many palatial residences, beautifully situated, the rolling, rising ground 
affording many advantageous sites for imposing structures which illustrate the wealth and the taste ,f this thriving and rapidly growing city. 



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RESIDENCES. (i) W. M. Teague, South Perry Street, (i) Jefferson Davis home, occupied by the President of the Confederacy 
during the year the city was the Southern Capitol. (3) H. C. Davidson, South Court Street. (4) Winchester residence, Felder Avenue, 
Cloverdale. Cloverdale is a newly developed residence section on high ground on the eastern limits of the city, near the Methodist College. 



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